Math 141 (Calculus I) Sections 001 and 002
Spring 2012

Lectures in LeConte 412 MWF 9:05 -- 9:55
Computer Lab Thursdays in LC 401
Recitation sections meet Tuesdays in LC 112
Section 001 meets 8:00-8:50 and Section 002 meets 9:30 - 10:20 TTh at the above locations


Professor: Peter J. Nyikos

Office: LeConte 406

Phone: 7-5134

Email: nyikos @ math.sc.edu

The TA for this course is Melanie Laffin, laffin @ mailbox.sc.edu

Special office hours for Tuesday, April 24: 2:00- 4:30; Wednesday, April 25: 1:20- 1:50; Thursday, April 26: 2:45 - 3:15 and 4:30 - 5:45; Friday, April 27 and Monday, April 30: 2:15 - 4:45; Tuesday, May 1: 8:30 - 11:40 and 2:00 -2:30; Wednesday, May 2: 9:00 -12:30 and 1:00 - 1:30. Office hours for rest of exam period tba.

The following sections could be covered on the final exam: 2.3, 2.5, 2.6
3.1 through 3.6, 3.9
4.1, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.7, 4.9
5.1, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
6.1, 6.2

The three hour tests are your best single resource for reviewing for the final. There are answer keys for all three tests in a large envelope outside LeConte 406.

Your SI for this course is Alexandra Houck, houckal @ email.sc.edu
The SI sessions start Tuesday, January 17 and follow the following schedule unless otherwise noted:
Tuesdays @ 7 PM in the Humanities Building, room 405
Wednesdays @ 9 PM (same room)
Sundays @ 6 PM (same room)

The textbook for this course is Calculus: Early Transcendentals by James Stewart, 6th edition.

The course covers the following sections of the textbook:

Information on policies and grading can be found here in pdf format.

The first hour test was on Friday, February 17. it covered up through Section 3.3 of the textbook.
The second hour test was on Wednesday, March 21. It covered Sections 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.9, 4.1, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, and 4.9 of the textbook.

The third hour test was on Friday, April 13. It covered sections 4.5, 4.7, 5.1, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5.

Learning outcomes: A student who completes Calculus I (Math 141) should be able to apply calculus techniques to a wide range of problems and begin to be able to approach problems from a conceptual viewpoint.

In particular, the successful student will master concepts and gain skills needed to solve problems related to finding limits (including one-sided limits, infinite limits, and limits at infinity); continuity and differentiability; rates of change (including related rates); taking derivatives of various functions (powers, exponential, logarithmic, and trigonometric) and their sums, quotients, products, and compositions; and differentiation of implicit functions.

The successful student will also be able to use differentiation to find extrema and local extrema of functions, and to plot their graphs; and to find limits using l'Hopital's rule to resolve indeterminate forms.

The successful student will master the concept of integration and its link to antidifferentiation via the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus; will understand and use the technique of u-substitution; and will apply these concepts and techniques to the finding of areas and of total net change over intervals.


The first quiz was Tuesday, January 17 and involved a problem very similar to a practice problem in Section 1.1; the second was January 24 on Section 2.3. The third quiz was on Thursday, February 2, on Section 2.5. The fourth quiz was February 6, on Section 2.6. The fifth quiz was February 14, on Section 3.2. The sixth quiz was on Section 3.4, on Tuesday, February 21.

[see below for a list of practice problems]

Homework handed in on Monday, January 23:
Section 1.1: 30, 50
Section 1.2: 16
Section 1.3: 36, 42 (state what f(x) and g(x) are in number 42)
Section 1.5: 18
Section 2.1: 2

Homework handed in on Monday, February 5:
Section 2.3: 8, 14, 16
Section 2.4: 16 (omit illustration)
Section 2.6: 18, 24 Review Section: 48 (page 168)
There was an extension on number 8 in 2.3 until Thursday, February 8.

Homework handed in on Friday, March 30:
Section 3.6: 34, 44 (compare Example 8)
Section 3.9: 4, 20
Section 4.1: 56
Section 4.4: 20, 42
Section 4.5: 26
Section 4.7: 24

Homework handed in on Friday, April 20:
p. 410, problems 10, 22, and 30
Section 6.1: problems 8, 18, and 24.

Practice problems for Chapter 1, not to be handed in:
Section 1.1: 1, 5, 7, 9, 17, 27, 29, 45, 51
1.2: 1, 3, 9, 15, 17
1.3: 1, 5, 15, 31, 33, 41
1.5: 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 19, 25(a)(b)(c)

Practice problems for Chapter 2, not to be handed in:
2.1: 1, 5, 7 [Also, if you like working with graphing calculators, you might enjoy working number 9 even though there will never be a problem like this on which you would be graded.]
2.2: 1, 7 [explain negative answers], 9
2.3: 1, 3, 7[justify each step in 3 and 7], 11, 13, 19, 27
2.4: 1, 3, 15, 23
2.5: 3, 11, 17, 19, 21, 37, 39
2.6: 3, 9, 19, 23, 39, 43
2.8: 1, 3, 35, 37, 41
2.7: 1, 3, 9(a)(b), 13

Practice problems for Chapter 3, not to be handed in:
3.1: 7, 11, 15, 23, 25, 27, 29, 33, 49, 55
3.2: 1, 3, 5, 7, 21, 27, 33
3.3: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 13, 23
3.4: 1, 3, 9, 11, 19, 21, 29, 33, 47, 51
3.5: 1, 3, 7, 11, 23, 27
3.6. 3, 5, 11, 33, 39
3.9: 3, 7, 13, 17, 27, 37 [recommendation: do 7 first]

Practice problems for Chapter 4, not to be handed in:
4.1: 1, 3, 5, 11, 31, 35, 49, 51, 53
4.3. 1, 5, 7, 9, 11, 19, 33
4.4: 1, 3, 5, 15, 17, 39, 41, 51, 55
4.5: 1, 9, 11, 25, 37
4.7: 3, 9, 13, 17, 31
4.9: 1, 3, 9, 13, 15, 63, 67

Practice problems for Chapter 5, not to be handed in:
5.1: 1, 3, 5
5.2: 1, 5, 7, 17, 19, 33
5.3: 7, 9, 15, 19, 23, 25, 29, 31, 39
5.4: 1, 3, 5, 15, 17, 19, 31
5.5: 1, 3, 5,7, 19, 21, 23, 31, 53, 55, 65, 69

Practice problems for Chapter 6, not to be handed in:
6.1: 1, 3, 5, 15, 19, 23 Note: sin(2x) = 2(sin x)(cos x)


Extra Credit

Extra credit problems are to be done strictly on your own. Professor Nyikos is the only one you are allowed to ask for help.

There is no due date, but once a correctly solved problem has been handed back to the student who did it, the problem is no longer eligible for extra credit.

If you get stuck on an extra credit problem, you can get partial credit for what you did if you hand it in; hints will be given on how to continue or to repair mistakes you made.

1. Section 3.5, number 58, p.214 [5 points each part]

2. Section 4.3, number 66(a)(b) [10 points]

3. Section 4.3, number 68 [6 points]

4. Section 4.3, number 70 [6 points]

5. Section 4.2, number 12 [4 points]

6. Section 4.2, number 14 [4 points]

7. Section 4.2, number 16 [6 points]

8. Section 4.2, number 18 [4 points]

9. Section 4.2, number 26 [5 points]